the unquestioning acceptance of products,
services and ideas that often benefit others yet provide one with
only a residue of things that in the end, lead to financial weakness,
family disharmony and a weakened nation.

America is a country of tremendous resources,
wealth and intellectual vigor. The benefits of these attributes are
often sapped and diverted to the interests of others. The people that
do the real work and the majority of the taxepayers are not seeing
the fruit of their labors. In many cases they are being
disenfranchised and are enjoying less and less of what should
rightfully be theirs. Their future and that of their children is
disintegrating. They often do it to themselves unwittingly through
the actions that they take in response to advertising and what the
mass media teaches them to do and believe. We offer some alternatives
that are positive and that strengthen peoples' economic
interactions.

More and more energy, time and
effort is being expended on useless non-productive things as a result
of consumerism.

What you
bought yesterday is garbage...

Today you'll
borrow
to buy something new...

Tomorrow you'll repay
with
interest...

Today's
New
that is tomorrow's due.

From

Free Citizens of the
republic

toconsumers in the
globally competitive marketplace.

The plan for
you:keep on
borrowing money and working to pay the interest-In the
name of the the nation, the state, the municipality and
of course...

yourallimportant
Personal
Consumption Habits

If you can't
pay, the bankers will take whatever you own. This applies
to families, small businesses and even
entirenations.

link All
about Argentina: lots of pictures
of middle class food
rioters and other strange sights never
seen before.

America, already the world's largest
international debtor, sees international trade deficits soar to new
records and domestic debt ratios of household, business and financial
sectors attain record highs,while personal savings plunge to record
lows.

Yeah but what about all that
wonderful new stuff we have to play with?

Are you happier and more secure
than you were last year or your parents were a generation ago?
Are you working longer
and harder to live the same or are you going
backwards?Is there a price to pay
for all that stuff and the energy to make it and the politics to keep
that energy flowing to our
shores?

You know that there is something wrong with the
world that we live in or you wouldn't be reading this site. We offer
you what we know and share what we are learning from others.

If you act on what is outlined here you not
only are making yourself less vulnerable to the forces that are
changing our world for the worse but you help to defeat
them.

Fake solutions abound. Putting on an
American flag pin is not being a patriot.

Getting excited about professional sports is
not service to your community.

Buying lots of things is not strengthening the
economy

The goal of this website:

To offer a place to learn about, develop, share and teach others
ways to improve ones own life and community through self-enlightened
and purposefully directed commercial transactions and lifestyle
choices that do good for everybody that counts.

an example:
All the small shops in
a community are threatened by the arrival of a huge mega store that
will destroy many jobs and community coherence. If enough people
boycott the large store and support the community businesses, than
perhaps the mega store can become something truly useful such as a
community meeting hall or a flea market. Thus, instead of sucking
profits and money out of the community, outside speculative money
will have enriched the community.

Another example: A couple opts for installing a
rebuilt engine and transmission in their old car instead of buying a
new one. They use the savings to pay off credit cards, take a
vacation and work fewer hours.

another example: A
studentsets out to learn to do
something useful like planting trees or growing food or carpentry in
addition to regular studies.

Globally competitive
marketplace?

Live better through local
cooperation.

Change starts with you.

"Your site is deeper than most and doesn't point fingers but
simply explains the choices. "

In 1998, Dick Cheney, then
chief executive of
Halliburton
oil services company,
remarked, "I cannot think of a time when we have had a
region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically
significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there is
worthless until it is moved.
The only
pipeline route which makes both political and economic
sense is through Afghanistan."

They
can't wait for this day. Especially since we'll
have no alternatives but to pay and pay and
pay...

This is the thumbnail version of our site's
purpose. The real thing is HERE